Snap To Selection In The Sample Editor

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@joule

Adding “custom” to the snap choices would be nice with the valuebox showing number of samples. When custom was selected it would be set to the current selection size. The custom value could be reset by making a selection while shift-key is being pressed (to avoid depress/press snap all the time for resetting the value).

@joule

^ i think it would be nice as well to allow for the ‘custom’ setting to be updated manually, ie. through inputting the exact numbers instead of having to always make a certain selection (which would possibly be more imprecise).

Both good ideas. After going through the motions in the sample editor, I may give more weight to rhowaldt’s suggestion because, and I could be wrong, intuitively sounds easier to implement. I just want to iterate the suggestions made to make sure I’ve understood both correctly…

– joule’s suggestion

1. make selection
2. select “custom” snap
3. sample editor reads the selection and adjusts according to the selection as the new custom sample cursor jump
4. reset custom value by holding shift while making a new selection

– rhowaldt’s suggestion

1. make selection
2. user reads the sum value of the selection shown in the sample editor
3. user decides to input the sum information as the new custom sample cursor jump or not (if the numbers are too big, perhaps it can behave like the bpm values ?, where part of it is hidden)

– my suggestion, which is similar to joule’s in that the sample editor reads the selection and makes the adjustment

1. make selection
2. select “custom” snap (a keybind-able button)
3. sample editor reads the selection and adjusts according to the selection as the new custom sample cursor jump
4. reset custom value by making new selection, then hitting “custom” snap.

Aside from the normal sample editor duties, this suggestion is as much as a rhythmic tool combined with “Slices to Track”.